Patsy T. Mink papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2638
Subjects: Asian Americans; Consumers; Reform; International cooperation; Labor; Child care; Draft; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; Military bases; Emigration and immigration; Sex discrimination; Politics and government; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Historic sites; Civil rights; Law and legislation; Japanese Americans; United States. Congress; United States. Dept. of State. Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Poverty; Honolulu (Hawaii). City Council; Americans for Democratic Action; Public welfare; Sports for women; Women; Nuclear weapons; Sex discrimination in sports; Environmental protection; United States; Discrimination in education; Women's rights; Medical care; Young Democratic Clubs of America; National parks and reserves; Practice of law; Strip mining; United States. Congress. House; Democratic Party (U.S.); Testing; Ethnic relations; Hawaiians; Legal status, laws; Race discrimination; Environmental policy; Honolulu (Hawaii); Education; Democratic Party (Hawaii)
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, notes, interviews, questionnaires, legislative files, testimony, casework, law practice client files, court documents, statements, press releases, appointment books, scheduling files, travel itineraries, campaign files, card files, biographical material, student papers, family papers, scrapbooks, news clippings, printed matter, awards and honors, political ephemera, maps, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Mink's service in the U.S. House of Representatives.  Documents Mink's service on Hawaii's territorial and state legislatures; Honolulu City Council; U.S. Congress House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; and U.S. Dept. of State Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; her involvement with Americans for Democratic Action and Young Democratic Clubs of America; and her private law practice in Honolulu.

Subjects include Asian-Americans; child care; civil rights; congressional reform; consumer affairs; draft reform; education; environment; ethnic and racial discrimination; gender equity; Hawaii and national Democratic politics; native Hawaiians; health care; historic sites and national parks in Hawaii; immigration; Japanese Americans; labor; military bases in Hawaii; nuclear weapons testing; poverty; strip mining legislation; Title IX; U.S. relations with China; U.S. territories in the Pacific including American Samoa, Guam, and the Trust Territory; the Vietnam War; welfare; Women's Educational Equity Act; and women and women's rights.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Classified, in part.

Gift, John F. Mink and Gwendolyn R. Mink, 2002-2007.

Gift, Gretchen M. Kafoury, 2006.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Lawyer, public official, and U.S. representative from Hawaii.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.